Bob Dylan

New "Bootleg Series" Edition Revisits Reviled Period for Bob Dylan

By Bob Ruggiero Bob Dylan Another Self Portrait (1969-1971) The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 Columbia/Legacy "What is this shit?" It is the most famous review opening line in all of rock journalism. And it was penned by Rolling Stone's Greil Marcus in 1970 in an attempt to explain the unexplainable Bo ... More >>

Bob Dylan, Wilco, My Morning Jacket, Ryan Bingham - Hoboken Pier - 7/26/13

Better Than: Most three-day music festivals Six hours on the Hoboken Pier may not sound like the ideal Friday evening, but Ryan Bingham, Wilco, My Morning Jacket and Bob Dylan made the trip worthwhile for thousands of fans last night. Kicking off around 5 p.m., the Live Nation-backed Americanarama ... More >>

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 7/26/13

For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.

LIKE A ROLLING STONE

Bob Dylan keeps on truckin'

HE WANTS YOU

Bob Dylan rolls into Barclays

Michael Arden

Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan

Barb Jungr

Bob Dylan (1) Gets In The Pit With Sick Of It All (16) In SOTC's March Madness

​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—continues, and you get to vote on who makes it to Round Two. We'll have some first-round results later today, but ... More >>

THE STYLISH ’60S

Music infiltrates the fashion world, 
like always

'Stones Fest'

Running The Numbers: The Four-Disc, 73-Track Bob Dylan Covers Comp With Miley, Ke$ha, Lenny, And Many Others

​Today Amnesty International releases Chimes Of Freedom, a really, really huge compilation of bob Dylan covers by artists both canonized and obscure. Trying to analyze such a huge undertaking can only be done in one way: Mathematically. Amount of music in this collection: 73 songs on four CD ... More >>

Bob Dylan Gets The British Female Treatment! Fab!

​Barb Jungr's name might seem to be missing vowels, but there's no need to call in Vanna White. The British chanteuse extraordinaire fills in all the blanks with her exciting interpretations of songs by folk poet Bob Dylan, as demonstrated in her new show at the Metropolitan room called The M ... More >>

100 & Single: Considering The Album-Chart Class Of 9/11, 10 Years Later

​A king of hip-hop, retaking the penthouse of the album chart with his latest blockbuster. A middle-of-the-road rock band, reviving a turn-of-the-'90s "alternative" sound that's now squarely mainstream. A sexagenarian legend who debuted in the '60s and who still captures Boomers' hearts and ... More >>

Seventy On Seventy: The 70 Best Bob Dylan Songs, A To Z (Part Two Of Two)

​ (Part One is here.) So here we are on the once-unthinkable occasion of Dylan turning 70. When Dylan was starting out, old white men--I mean older than Pete and Woody--were mostly on the wrong side of the Civil Rights movement. Older black men, if they were survivors like Howlin' Wolf or S ... More >>

Seventy On Seventy: The 70 Best Bob Dylan Songs, A To Z (Part One)

​About a year ago, I was putting a book about Bob Dylan to bed. Since I was looking at year's lead time, my plan was for Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown (Yale) to be released on Dylan's 70th birthday, for obvious reasons. I learned early on at my grandfather's funeral the biblical significa ... More >>

DYLAN'S SUPER SWEET 70

A subterranean birthday party

The Other Side of the Mirror

LIKE A ROLLING STONE

Film Forum wishes Dylan a happy 70th

Q&A: Rhett Miller on Writing New Words to "Desolation Row" and the Chili's Theme Song

​ Old 97's bandleader Rhett Miller can tell you the exact number of songs he's written, but not how many times his fans have proposed at shows. He's happy to sound off on Battlestar Galactica, Rock Band, his perfect coif, and how to write a cheating song when you're happily married. Just don' ... More >>

Let's Play "Name Your Favorite Bob Dylan Song," Starring No Age, Robyn Hitchcock, DJ Rekha, Greg Dulli, And More

Naturally, this record shows up quite a bit​As our celebration of the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City winds down, we thought we'd reach out to a bunch of musicians with a simple question: What's your favorite Dylan song?

Rock-Critic Pop Quiz #4: How Many '60s Bob Dylan Albums Can You Name?

​In the '70s and '80s, knowing Bob Dylan was one of the most crucial skills of being a good rock critic, right alongside "a smug sense of entitlement" and "snorting this whole table of blow." But how does he fare among a new generation of critics? For young rock writers, Bob is basically an in ... More >>

Interview: Famed Bob Dylan Violinist Scarlet Rivera On The Chance NYC-Street Meeting That Changed Her Life

"Fortunately, I didn't have too much time to think about it." ​Scarlet Rivera may well be the most famous post-Band musician to play behind Bob Dylan. Two reasons: a violin that stands out more than, say, even the most stylistic bass or drum set, and one hell of a story. In February 1976, Pe ... More >>

Here's Our "Bob Dylan In New York City" Video Series, Complete And Uncut

​So we've spent the week revisiting old Greenwich Village Bob Dylan landmarks, thanks to the tireless work of SOTC writer/interviewer Rob Trucks and video guru Jeremy Krinsley; they've dropped by the Gaslight, Jones Street, Cafe Wha?, and the Washington Square Hotel, among various other Dylano ... More >>

Week In Review: Bob Dylan Is Waiting In A Van Outside Your House

Photo via Fred W. McDarrah, there from the start.​Yes, it was Dylan Week here at SOTC, a veritable orgy of Greenwich Village-scouring videos (with installments covering Cafe Wha?, Jones Street, the Gaslight, and Washington Square Hotel, or just enjoy the whole thing in one shot here), along wi ... More >>

Dylan In NYC, Day 4: Haunting The Washington Square Hotel And The 8th Street Bookshop

​For the last day of our video series covering New York City's Bob Dylan landmarks (which has already covered places like the Gaslight, Jones Street, and Cafe Wha?), we step away from places where he lived and posed and played, instead curling back to Washington Square to find the place he met ... More >>

Dylan's Voice Archive: Nobody Likes Him In His Hometown

​We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City with videos, artist tributes, and old Voice stories. Already we've seen a stage-crashing, fruit-throwing Mods vs. Rockers brawl at one of Dylan's early electric shows and a glowing review of the kinder, gentler Blo ... More >>

The Sex Shop Near Where Bob Dylan Lived

Visiting Dylan-in-NYC landmarks on the 50th anniversary of his arrival here

A Word From Todd Snider: What Would You Say If You Met Bob Dylan?

"i'm hoping if i ever meet bob dylan that i don't end up pinned under a garage door."​To continue our celebration of the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City, we've asked folk singer/jovial Renaissance Man Todd Snider for his thoughts on Dylan's legacy, and his intimidating ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Zaire Paige Shoots to Kill

​​The cover of this week's Village Voice is the story of Zaire Paige, a budding young actor who went from playing a killer in the Ethan Hawke film Brooklyn's Finest, to becoming one in real life. He now faces 107 years in prison for the murder of suspected gangster Lethania Garcia, a killing ... More >>

Bob Dylan In NYC, Day 3: Revisiting The Gaslight, The Village Gate, And More

Try and guess which famous song Bob wrote at this spot while you enjoy one of the six best margaritas in New York City. Pic by Trucks.​All this week we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in Manhattan; with Cafe Wha? and Jones Street behind us, day three of our video tou ... More >>

Bob Dylan's New York City: Why It Never Got Better Than 1961

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City, we're rolling out a host of essays, videos, old Voice clips, and assorted fanfare. Here, professor, author, and critic David Yaffe explains why 1961 was the year Dylan could never forget, and never duplicate. A simpler time ... More >>

Bob Dylan In NYC, Day 2: Revisiting Jones Street And 161 West 4th

Tic Tac Toe wasn't there at the time, no. Pic by Trucks.​As Monday marked the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City, we move now to the second Jeremy Krinsley-helmed video in our week-long celebration. Today's tour stop features 161 West Fourth Street, the site of Dylan's fi ... More >>

Dylan's Voice Archives: In Praise Of The Kinder, Gentler Blonde on Blonde

​We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City with videos, artist tributes, and old Voice stories. Yesterday we encountered a stage-crashing, fruit-throwing Mods vs. Rockers brawl at one of Dylan's early electric shows; today it's Richard Goldstein's glowing r ... More >>

Bob Dylan Arrived In New York City 50 Years Ago Today

Photo by the incomparable Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images​Bob Dylan's life is short on concrete facts and figures, very much by design, but the experts seem to agree on this one: The man born Robert Zimmerman arrived in NYC on January 24, 1961, exactly a half-century ago. He immediately started ... More >>

Bob Dylan In NYC: Revisiting Cafe Wha? And 94 MacDougal

Pic by Trucks.​Today marks the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City: To celebrate, each day this week we'll be taking you to a different landmark integral to the half-century-old Bob-in-NYC story, hosted by the most deadpan voice-over guy in history (that'd be me) and filme ... More >>

Dylan's Voice Archives: Mods And Rockers Face Off In An Epic Orgy Of Stage-Crashing And Fruit-Throwing

​We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City with videos, artist tributes, and old Voice stories about the man, the latter starting with this piece, first published on September 2, 1965, on the tension between Mods and Rockers at an early show during the divi ... More >>

Week in Review: All Kanye, All The Time

​In the week Kanye West finally let us in on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (for the small price of $3.99!, we informed you of the rapper's last-minute Bowery Ballroom show, interviewed an intern who typed his Captcha faster than we did, and ultimately gave you a song-by-song breakdown of h ... More >>

Live: Bob Dylan Rasps Beautifully At Terminal 5

Listen, he's Bob Dylan, and I'm honoring this.​Bob Dylan Terminal 5 Monday, November 22 Better Than: That tour he did awhile back with John Mellencamp, probably. You want to know what he looks like, but you already know: dapper, dignified, craggy, with a hat so wide and round and stiff it co ... More >>

Celebrate Bob Dylan's Return To NYC With This Atlas Sound Cover of "This Wheel's On Fire"

​At long last, Bob Dylan arrives in town tonight, kicking off three days at Terminal 5. The shows are sold out as all hell, of course, though Craigslist doesn't seem too predatory at the moment (think $75-150, or considerably more if you want to go the Stubhub route). And what better way to ce ... More >>

Greil Marcus, D.A. Pennebaker, and John Wesley Harding Will All Be At The 14th Street Y on December 5, Talking About Bob Dylan

​Next May will mark Bob Dylan's 70th birthday. Expect an absolute flood of books (we'd be remiss for not mentioning our pal David Yaffe's Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown, which comes out that month), panels, symposiums, tribute shows, and the like. In fact, a bunch of this stuff is already ... More >>

Hotel Chelsea Now on the Market, Will Probably Go Upscale (Sigh)

​It's the end of an era. The Hotel Chelsea, which opened in 1884 -- where Sid Vicious may or may not have killed Nancy Spungen, Andy Warhol directed Chelsea Girls, and the names of residents frequently read like a who's who of '60s counterculture -- is now up for sale, reports the Wall Street ... More >>

So Bob Dylan Is Coming to Terminal 5 In November

​And so history's most evil Santa impersonator will come to the Bowery Presents' biggest venue next month, a win for the massive local concert promotion conglomerate, and a draw for the fans who will surely sell these shows out in a matter of minutes. At three nights (November 22nd-24th, or th ... More >>

No Happily Ever After for Kids of Kisses

Sam Bush+Solas

Clip Job: Newfield Makes the Case for Bob Dylan

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 26, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 15 Brecht of the Juke Box, Poet of the Electric Guitar By Jack Newfield Norman Morrison burned himself to death to protest the Vietnam war, and when reporters visited his spare room they saw quotes fro ... More >>

DYLAN ON DYLAN

You don’t need a weatherman to know that this may still blow

Clip Job: The Defend Bob Dylan Rally!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 7, 1965, Vol. X, No. 51 Dylan in October By Jack Newfield They booed Bob Dylan at Newport in July, they insulted him at Forest Hills in August, but last Friday at Carnegie Hall they screamed for more of his "rock folk" poetry ... More >>

Clip Job: Mods vs. Rockers at Dylan Concert!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives August 26, 1965, Vol. X, No. 45 A funny thing happened on our way through the archives... We don't seem to have a copy of the August 26, 1965 Voice. Each of our library's two bound volumes for that period, for some reason, substitute ... More >>

O Rasp, All Ye Faithful: Bob Dylan's Christmas Album

Zimmerman's Christmas: mildly enjoyable, tremendously strange